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the imagination as a driving force upon which the protagonist, Mr. Biswas, relies in order to achieve his Maringa, v. 34, n. 1, p. 103-106, Jan.-June, 2012. The issue of literacy and imagination in A House for Mr. Biswas. A House for Mr. Biswas portrays the lifelong search of Naipaul argues in his non-fictional text Jasmine.
stories set in Trinidad. The stories would be pub- lished some years later as Miguel Street. In 1958 his first novel, The Mystic Masseur, a comic story of a. Trinidadian con man, was accepted for publication. In 1961 A House for Mr Biswas became Naipaul's fourth published work and brought him interna- tional attention.
Mr Biswas, in A House for Mr Biswas, is an exile in an alien society. But disregarding his societal position as a marginal man, he yearns t9 be something great, something more than a henpecked husband and a mere sign-writer; actually, he tries to assert the pride of a free man. William. Walsh puts it thus: "The substance of
“A House for Mr Biswas" By Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul 2. Prologue. Ten weeks before he died, Mr. Mohun Biswas, a journalist of Sikkim Street, St. James,. Port of Spain, was sacked. He had been ill for some time. In less than a year he had spent more than nine weeks at the Colonial Hospital and convalesced at home
The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul's brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has
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In the first part of the novel, Mohun Biswas is an Indo-Trinidadian who begins his life inauspiciously when he is born under several unfavorable conditions. A Hindu pundit is called in to name him and cast his horoscope; he predicts that this will be a child who brings bad luck to his family. The prophecy seems to begin to
In two recent South African novels, universal questions on the relationship between humans and nature are discussed by foregrounding the regional angle. At the same time a wide range of environmental issues informs the narratives. While no easy solution for an endangered ecosystem is offered by either of the two texts,

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